East Coast Pirates 2020

My youngest grand daughter will 15 and a true petrol head will only come if she can drive. Likes the sail boat in Portugal but first love is the 600hp lurking in the Pond - she doesn’t get to refuel it?
 
Well a good bit of Fred Drift ere; (maybe) few years ago i was wearing an eye patch and accompanied my Wife as her driver to local Superstore; my plan was to take a Coffee Break in the cafe whilst She did the shopping; well i sat away from most in a quiet corner, being aware of the Eye Patch; a Mother dumped her son on the next table whilst she went and ordered the snacks, the young son saw my eye patch, and could not take his eyes off me, when Mum arrived back she sat with her back to me, the young son was badgering her to 'look at the Pirate' behind her, she was being polite to son but not turning round to face me, son by now was quite agitated so Mum turns around and looked straight at me, her eyes opened wide, she recovered from embarasement and started appologising to me for looking straight at me, I said thats ok I think son thinks that I am a real Pirate , yes she stated, he is infatuated by Pirates think that he believes you are one !

Yes Pirates are magical, what our world needs is definetely more Pirates amoungst us, and what a better setting for Pirates than Essex Marshes and rivers which are just magical in their own right
 
Capt Popeye said:
Well a good bit of Fred Drift ere; (maybe) few years ago i was wearing an eye patch and accompanied my Wife as her driver to local Superstore; my plan was to take a Coffee Break in the cafe whilst She did the shopping; well i sat away from most in a quiet corner, being aware of the Eye Patch; a Mother dumped her son on the next table whilst she went and ordered the snacks, the young son saw my eye patch, and could not take his eyes off me, when Mum arrived back she sat with her back to me, the young son was badgering her to 'look at the Pirate' behind her, she was being polite to son but not turning round to face me, son by now was quite agitated so Mum turns around and looked straight at me, her eyes opened wide, she recovered from embarasement and started appologising to me for looking straight at me, I said thats ok I think son thinks that I am a real Pirate , yes she stated, he is infatuated by Pirates think that he believes you are one !

Yes Pirates are magical, what our world needs is definetely more Pirates amoungst us, and what a better setting for Pirates than Essex Marshes and rivers which are just magical in their own right
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A pirate a day keeps the customs away. HMRC doesn't scan so well. ;)
 
dolabriform said:
Maybe I should have been more detailed in my original post, but I thought that people would not think I would be so stupid as to be suggesting a mosh pit.

It's a Pirates Day. Dress up as Pirates and have fun. Or is having fun banned?

If we can't land and have BBQ's in individual groups 10 metres apart, then we could all dress up, hoist Jolly Rogers and have a sail around cork sand whilst hoisting insults on signal flags.




It's whatever we decide to make it.

If this still offends people, then ***** it, I'll delete the post and forget about it.
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Don't cancel - this sounds like a great day and positive even on the day just to forget the bad times is a fantastic thing.
 
It's three months away. Every sailing club in the known galaxy has events still on the calendar and will be reviewing them continually to see what can and can't be done. We cancelled all of ours as they came up, so far, but who knows what will happen in the future.
 
dolabriform said:
Ahoy ya scurvy lot

We're thinking about holding the Pirates day on Saturday the 8th of August, with a raincheck on the 15th if the weather doesn't play ball. ( I know, it's the UK in August, what could possibly go wrong? )

HW is at approx 1530 which I think would allow plenty of time for people to arrive and have fun before a BBQ.


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What a brilliant idea. I will probably not be back in the water until next season ? however if I am floating I will be there. Rum in hand ⚓?
 
Hi All

Due to the almost daily changing status of what we can and can't do, to make it easy to have the relevant information in one place East Coast Cruising have kindly agreed to host an event page.

As with last year, I'm going to 'announce' event in multiple places, so it also makes it much easier for me to just say 'click here for details' ( as I'm a lazy bugger ) :rolleyes:

Here's the link to the page:

East Coast Pirates : East Coast Cruising

If / when ever anything changes I'll update the page and also post here, there, and everywhere :D

Yo ho ho and all that :ROFLMAO:

David
 
dolabriform said:
Hi All

Due to the almost daily changing status of what we can and can't do, to make it easy to have the relevant information in one place East Coast Cruising have kindly agreed to host an event page.

As with last year, I'm going to 'announce' event in multiple places, so it also makes it much easier for me to just say 'click here for details' ( as I'm a lazy bugger ) :rolleyes:

Here's the link to the page:

East Coast Pirates : East Coast Cruising

If / when ever anything changes I'll update the page and also post here, there, and everywhere :D

Yo ho ho and all that :ROFLMAO:

David
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As the East Coast Pirates Weekend has been taken over as a club event and I (like many others) will be unable to access this link.

BYE
 
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nortada said:
As the East Coast Pirates Weekend has been taken over as a club event and I (like many others) will be unable to access this link?

BYE
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Hi, please note that this has NOT been taken over by a club. They are merely hosting a page titled ECF Pirates Day which is acting as a virtual Flyer.
This page is not behind any kind of membership login, and should be viewable and accessible to all and sundry.
If people are unhappy about this then please tell me and I'll get the page removed and just keep the information here.
As I said in my previous post, I thought it would make it easier to keep all the relevant information in one place rather than have it spread over multiple posts in the thread.
Once again, this is not a club event, it's as it always has been. Apologies for any confusion.
David
 
nortada said:
As the East Coast Pirates Weekend has been taken over as a club event and I (like many others) will be unable to access this link?

BYE
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Have you actually tried to access the link ?

If you had, you would have found that it isn't a club event and it is on a page available to all. You'd also notice the heading that says "Published on behalf of the ECF, the following event is open to all. "
 
dolabriform said:
Hi All

Due to the almost daily changing status of what we can and can't do, to make it easy to have the relevant information in one place East Coast Cruising have kindly agreed to host an event page.

As with last year, I'm going to 'announce' event in multiple places, so it also makes it much easier for me to just say 'click here for details' ( as I'm a lazy bugger ) :rolleyes:

Here's the link to the page:

East Coast Pirates : East Coast Cruising

If / when ever anything changes I'll update the page and also post here, there, and everywhere :D

Yo ho ho and all that :ROFLMAO:

David
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When trying to access the link, I get ...

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